Combined filling and draining device



June 10, 1930' G. v. GAVAZA 7 1,762,390

comanmn FILLING AND DRAINING nmvzcs Filed Jan. 24, 1929 [IT 706 via? 11 I 7 t if mm Patented June 10, 1930 rrn srrs GEORGE V. GAVAZA, F QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS Application filed January 24,1929.

The present invention relates to receptacle filling and draining devices such, for instance, as are used to fill and drain the tubs of household clotheswashing machines.

It has been proposed heretofore to provide households with devices for filling and drain ing the tubs of clothes-washing machines. These devices usually comprise a T having three outlets, two flexible conduits connected,

respectively, to two of said outlets, a tube connected to the third outlet and a coupling for connecting the tube to the threaded cold water faucet of a sink fixture, the shorter one of said conduits having another coupling thereon for attaching it to the threaded hot water faucet. lVith this construction the short and long flexible conduits are connected to the hot and cold water faucets, respectively, to fill the tub of the clothes-washing machine with. water. To drain the tub after use the short flexible conduit is disconnected from the hot water faucet and positioned in the sink. Then when the cold water is turn ed on the device acts as a siphon to drain the water from the tub to the sink, both the fresh cold water from the faucet and the dirty water from the tub discharging into the. sink through the short flexible conduit.

The filling and draining device just described has a restricted field of use because rarely is the hot water faucet of a sink fixture threaded. .Moreover, many modern sink fixtures have a single discharge faucet connected to the hot and cold water supplies so that it is impossible to fill the tub therefrom with the filling and draining device hereinbefore described. Furthermore, the size of the threaded outlets vary with different manufacturers and no provision is made in the described filling and draining device for accomodating it to different sizes of outlets.

The principal object of the present invention is to produce a receptacle filling and draining device which may be used in connection with a smooth-faced hot water faucet, with a single discharge faucet connected to hot and cold water supplies, and with faucets having different sizes of threaded outlets.

Stated in another way, the object of the Serial No. 334,701.

present invention is to produce a filling and draining device capable of universal use.

To the accomplishment of this object, the features of the present invention consist in certain devices, combination and arrangements of parts fully set forth hereinafter, the advantages of which will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.

The various features of the present invention will be readily understood from an inspection of the accompanying drawings illustrating the best form of the invention, at present known to the inventor, in which,

Figure 1 is an elevation showing in full and construction lines, respectively, the device in use to fill and drain a receptacle;

F 2 is an elevation showing the device connected to a single discharge faucet of a hot and cold water fixture;

Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the tube, the coupling and the clamp surrounding the tube for detachably connecting the coupling to the tube; and

Fig. 4 is a detail in sectional elevation showing the T with the three outlets, the flexible conduits connected, respectively, to two of the outlets, and the tube connected to the third outlet.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the combined filling and draining device comprises a T 5 Fi g. 4) having three outlets 6, 7 and 8. Adjacent the outlet 6, the T 5 is shouldered to receive one end of a long flexible conduit 9 the other end of which extends into the receptacle 10 to be filled and drained. The conduit 9 is clamped to the T 5 by a metallic ferrule 11. Adjacent the outlet 7 the T 5 is shouldered to receive one end of a short flexible conduit 12 the other end of which is provided with an integral roll 13 to permit the conduit 12 to fit over the smooth face of the hot water faucet 14: 1). The conduit 12 is clamped to the T 5 by a metallic ferrule 15.

The third outlet of the T 5 is threaded to q receive a. threaded nipple l6 \vhichis secured to a short rubber tube 1.7 by a metallic ferrule 18. The tube 17 loosely receives a corrugated nipple 19 upon which is rotatably mounted the internally threaded conpling 20 adapted to be threaded to the threaded cold water faucet 21. The. nipple 19 is clamped to the tube 17 by a clamp 22 which surrounds the tube and which is provided with ears 23 and 24 which receive a screw 25 having a butterfly head 26. The screw 25 engages a nut 27 so that by mainipulating the head 26 the clamp may be tightened to clamp the nipple 19 tothe tube With this construction the device may be coupled to the cold water faucet 21 with the long conduit 9 positioned in the receptacle 10 and the short conduit 12 rolled into engagement with the 'hot water faucet 14:. Thereceptacle may thus be filled with water having the proper temperature. To drain the receptacle the short conduit. 12 is detached from the hot water faucet and the free end of the conduit is positioned in the sink 28 (Fig. 1). The cold water is then turned onf The conduit 12 is then pinched or bent for an instant. hen the conduit 12 is released draining of the receptacle 1() starts at once owing to the condition of unbalanced pressure on the surface of the water in the receptacle and in the conduit 12.

In order that the device may be used both in filling and draining the receptacle when the fiXture is of the construction shown in Fig, 2 in'which the hot and cold water supplies 29 and 30 discharge through a single faucet 31, the T 5 is provided with a piece of wire 32 one end of which is bent to embrace-the T and the other end of which is bent to .form a hook 33. By bending the conduit 12 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and inserting the bent conduit 12 within the hook 33 the conduit 12 is put out of commission so that the filling water enters the receptacle through the conduit 9. To drain the receptacle the water from the cold water supply is turned on and the conduit 12 is released from. the hook and allowed to Y straighten out 111 the sink as shown in Fig. 1.

, By detachably connecting the coupling 20 to the tube 7 provision is made for using different sizes of couplings to fit difierent sizes on the outlets of the threaded faucets.

Vi'th the present construction the filler and draining device is capable of use on double faucets having widely varying sizes of outlets on the threaded cold water faucet and having either smooth-faced or threaded hot .connected, respectively,- to two of said outlets, a tube connected to the third outlet, a

coupling for connecting the tube to a threaded faucet, the shorter one of said conduits coupling for connecting the tube to a threaded faucet, and means carried by the T for holding the shorter one of the conduits in a bent condition shutting off flow therethrough. V

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GEORGE V. 'GAVAZA. 

